HC Deb 15 January 2002 vol 378 cc257-8W
Mr. Gray

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to section 32 of the Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890, if Commissioners have made use of this power since 1972 to reward their own officers involved in a case. [26843]

Dawn Primarolo

We are not aware of any cases in which the Commissioners of Inland Revenue have used their power under section 32 of the Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 to reward their own officers.

Those reports also set out details for each year of the total additional tax, interest and penalties brought into charge as a result of work tackling non-compliance. Details of the number of cases that led to a recovery of funds and the proportion of those recoveries made up of tax, interest and penalties are not readily available and the costs of isolating that information would be disproportionate.

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